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Vickers number

American

noun

Metallurgy.

a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test Vickers test in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.

After Vickers Armstrong Ltd., British steel firm

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